Askunu

E258279

Askunu is an Indo-Iranian language of the Nuristani group spoken by the Ashkun people in parts of eastern Afghanistan.

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Askunu canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Iranian language
Nuristani language
language
country Afghanistan
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
threatened
ethnicGroup Ashkun people
hasAlternativeName Ashkun
Ashkuni
linked to: Ashkun

Askunu language
hasDialect Bargamit dialect
Titin dialect
Wama dialect
hasDomain home and community use
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
complex verbal morphology
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
series of retroflex consonants
hasReligionAssociated Sunni Islam
hasStatus minority language in Afghanistan
hasTransmission intergenerational transmission weakening
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Dari
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
ISO639-3 ask
languageBranch Nuristani
linked to: Nuristani languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
neighboringLanguage Kati
Pashayi
linked to: Pashai

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Prasun
Waigali
numberOfSpeakers several thousand
partOf Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian
region Kunar Province
Nuristan Province
riskFactor shift to Dari
shift to Pashto
spokenBy Ashkun people
spokenIn Afghanistan
eastern Afghanistan
linked to: Eastern Afghanistan
subclassOf Indo-Iranian languages
Nuristani languages
usedByCommunity Ashkun villages in Nuristan
usedIn oral communication
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

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